HEADS UP: No Booster, No Entry is Proposed in Areas with High Vaccination Rates (Feb. 3)

Here’s a Heads Up from reportr on news you need to know today, Feb. 3:

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• Are journalists biased when they ask hard questions? Here’s the academic perspective on the Jessica Soho and Bongbong Marcos interview that never happened.
• Obese people may look unhealthy to judgmental eyes yet science shows that on the inside, metabolically, they can fight chronic diseases such as diabetes.

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• Here are the requirements for travel to Boracay from February. Fully vaccinated travelers can enter without a negative RT-PCR test.

NEWS YOU NEED TO KNOW

• An economic adviser to president Duterte suggested requiring proof of booster shots before entry to establishments in Metro Manila.
• Comelec Commissioner Rowena Guanzon, who voted to disqualify presidential candidate Bongbong Marcos, got at least seven prank food deliveries on her retirement yesterday.
• The U.S. CDC advised Americans to avoid travel to the Philippines due to “very high” COVID cases.
• There were 7.661 new COVID cases yesterday, the second day straight day below the 10,000-mark.
• When he steps down from office, President Rodrigo Duterte must be held accountable for the government’s procurement of allegedly substandard and overpriced face shields, according to the Senate Blue Ribbon Committee.
• ”Stealth omicron”, the more contagious strain of the world’s most dominant coronavirus variant, has been detected in 57 countries, says the WHO.
• Denmark is the first country in the European Union to scrap face masks, thanks to a vaccination program that is ahead of schedule, with 60% of the population given booster shots.
• Pfizer and BioNTech are seeking approval from U.S. authorities for their COVID-19 vaccine that’s made for kids under five years old.
• Queen Elizabeth has marked 70 years on the throne, making her one of the longest-serving British monarchs in history.